Iron Age Community of Osteria Dell''osa - A Study of Socio-Political Development in Central Tyrrhenian Italy

Klappentext Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri deals in this monograph with a major archaeological site! the Iron Age cemetery of Osteria dell'Osa! near Rome. Zusammenfassung Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri, one of the finest Italian protohistorians, deals in this monograph with a major archaeological site, the Iron Age cemetery of Osteria dell'Osa, near Rome. The cemetery materials provide rich insights into the emergence of the city-state in central Italy in the crucial period 900–580 BC. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Cemetery studies and social reconstruction; 3. Southern Etruria, ancient Lazio and Campania in the late Bronze and Early Iron Ages; 4. The cemetery of Osteria dell'Osa; 5. The cemetery of Osteria dell'Osa. General anthropological and archaeological data; 6. Ritual biases and the overall reconstruction of individual role and status; 7. The basic units of the cemetery. The earliest phases: the South and North groups; 8. The North and South lineages; 9. Period III: changes in social structure and territorial setting as seen from cemetery evidence; 10. A comparison of the general Iron Age cultural process in ancient Lazio with the evidence of Osteria dell'Osa; 11. The overall cultural process in Etruria, Lazio and Campania in the light of the study of Osteria dell'Osa; 12. Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.12.2008
• EAN: 9780521103596
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10359-6
• No. of pages: 284
• Series: New Studies in Archaeology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)